Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS(Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products,as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.

We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with14.04.3, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack fornew installations to support new hardware across all our supportedarchitectures, not just x86.

As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updatedinstallation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need tobe downloaded after installation. These include security updates andcorrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintainingstability and compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop,Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Kylin, Edubuntu, andKubuntu. All the remaining flavours will be supported for 3 years.

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